Nesting leads to dreaded curse

WHAT KATI DID NEXT: It’s happened. I’ve got myself hooked. I’m now a devoted fan and I had spent so long trying to ignore it.

I’d been told countless number of times how brilliant it was, what a buzz it all was, how you can get addicted, but up until now I had managed to stem the tide.

It is, however, amazing what happens to you when there is a baby on the way. I shall explain.

Nearing the end of any pregnancy there is a time, it may or may not come, when the mother-to-be — and let’s be honest, it’s never the father — gets an intense urge to clean the house from top to bottom.

This cleaning doesn’t just involve a spray of Mr Muscle here or a dab of Jif, sorry, Cif, there.

No, this cleaning involves paint brushes, kitchen extensions and removal men.

There is something hard wired within us lovely ladies to make sure that the nest is well and truly feathered for the arrival of the new being. There is nothing you can do to stop it.

Hence the reason why our house at this present time looks utterly frightening to me, she with the OCD.

Every corner I turn there is a new pile of stuff to be sorted/tipped/ binned/scrapped or, and here comes the rub, eBayed.

Yes, the curse of eBay has suddenly taken over me and like a moth to the flame I have been caught bouncing off the light many times over in the last two weeks.

Every pile of clothing, knick-knackery and furniture that has not been tied down has been documented, photographed and uploaded on to the webbery that is eBay, and oh what a joy.

I did start the wrong way round and bought before I sold but the thrill of beating another eBayer within the last nine seconds — yes my friends, the last nine seconds — of an auction will remain with me forever.

Then I started to sell. How many people are watching my BNWT (Brand new with tags, you heathens) maternity top from Mamas and Papas. How exciting.

Get a life you say? Well my good friends, I challenge you to an eBay-off. Get yourself logged on, selling and buying and see how fast your opinion changes.

I wager it won’t take longer than nine seconds.